Harshit Pathak

Thank you for the gift

@satpute482 Design twitter is so confusing

My X is full of Spotify Icon discussion, which makes zero sense for all

“Don’t animate this”… “Only use icons here”… like that’s just your opinion man

We need to stop talking about product design in absolutes… there are no rules. Everything is made up. Do what makes sense and feels right.

Have wasted several nights looking for that reference which I saved but now lost in bookmarks of some random chrome profile, figma file or screenshots This is something every creative team should use @SparklinGuy @vainsh Shipping the most delightful product Access when?

@itsiddharth_ Going through the same phase....Last time designed something satisfying was 10-12 days ago

i havent designed anything i am proud of in the last couple months is this how athletes feel when they are out of form because its not like i am not trying it just aint clicking idk why

Some designer at Spotify was having a good day to write this

@phalgooon Framer sucks...Code seems much more faster and flexible

In 2025, all new websites were either webflow or framer. Now its all claude code

A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want. This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes feels very impressive. Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes almost impossible to guide AI there. And you definitely can’t one-shot it.

Drowning in keyframes

Making something people love is mostly making something you love and hoping the overlap is real

@viraj_sheth @satpute482

Who is the best website designer you’ve ever worked with or know of? I need reccos for a very cool project. This is for an deeptech company.

@thelifeofrishi Hey Rishi....we are working on solving AI data analytics with automations and bringing all the analytics together Would love to give you a demo and hear your thoughts

curious which analytics apps have MCP integrations already? it would be nice to pair it with Stripe MCP and see detailed insights within the IDE itself and make further improvements

@raphaelschaad @satpute482

A founder I'm working with is looking to work with a brand designer — logo, landing page, … who's good and available for a gig? Feel free to tag, retweet, share to find the best person.

I think Chat first experience really helps lower the clutter of a standard UI but works only if you customise the user guidance and entry points as per user context overtime

when software had a soul there was a moment around 2005 when using a Mac felt like touching something alive. the dock bounced. the genie effect swooped. exposé scattered your windows like cards on a table. none of it was strictly necessary. all of it felt like someone cared – not about metrics, but about the feeling of using a machine. software back then had texture. it had a philosophy. you could feel the person behind it. someone made a decision to make that icon beautiful, to animate that transition just so, to write that error message with a little warmth. apps had personalities. some were weird. some were over-designed in ways that would make a modern PM flinch. but they were alive. the web was the same. personal sites were genuinely personal. blogs felt like letters. forums had regulars. you knew who made what. the internet had neighborhoods, and each one felt different. nothing was optimized for scale. things were made by people who loved what they were making. somewhere along the way, we traded all of that for growth. A/B tests flattened the edges. design systems standardized the personality out. everything got faster, smoother, more consistent – and somehow less interesting. the quirks were removed because they didn't test well. the warmth got cut because it wasn't measurable. we optimized our way into a world of things that work perfectly and feel like nothing. now every app looks the same. every interface follows the same patterns. every product speaks in the same calm, frictionless voice, siloed in their own little islands. the humanity got rounded off. and then came AI agents. and the speed got inhuman. now you can generate an entire product in an afternoon. ship a feature before lunch. spin up ten variations before anyone's had their coffee. the gap from idea to code is basically zero. which sounds incredible. and it is. but there's a catch. when making things are too easy, the slop comes for free too. mediocre things don't look obviously bad – they look fine. they work. they ship. they pass review. and now there are infinite of them. the internet is filling up with software that functions but means nothing. interfaces that are correct but feel dead. products made by agents, reviewed by no one, shipped into the void. this is the thing that keeps me up at night. not that AI will replace people who care. but that it will drown them out. here's what I still believe: the best things are made by people who couldn't help themselves. someone who lost sleep over an icon. who rewrote the same line of copy twelve times. who added an animation nobody asked for because it made the thing feel right. that obsession – that's not inefficiency. that's the whole point. AI doesn't make that irrelevant. it actually makes it rarer and more valuable. taste is not a markdown skill. caring is not a parameter. the weird, specific, "soul" thing you put into something – that can't be programmed into existence. the path forward isn't to make more slop faster. it's to finally give people with real vision the tools to make the thing they always imagined but couldn't build alone. the designer who had the idea but couldn't code. the kid who saw something nobody else saw. the person who cared too much about something most people wouldn't notice. if we get this right, we don't get a faster factory. we get a renaissance. more strange, personal, opinionated software made by teams of people who care and mean it. that's still possible. but only if the people who care get the space and tools to actually express themselves – and don't just hand the wheel to the agent and walk away.

@itsiddharth_ The only thing irreplaceable by AI

the best design tool is still pen and paper

I’ve led design for start up founders and multi billion dollar companies. New founders often don’t yet understand that their product’s value is experienced through the design of it. Your products hello, and long term relationship is defined by the design and UX. Your value won’t be felt if the user doesn’t enjoy the experience. Some founders believe the function is the IP, but I’ve seen high value products crushed by competitors with the same value level combined with improved design. It happens every day. This is why experienced founders pay the highest level designers so much. They know it starts with design, but that design also keeps the customer.

@phalgooon @the_dream_saver After apple ecosystem...there is Eternal ecosystem

@the_dream_saver If you eat toooo healthy you can also apply to Temple 🙏

So I get a free meal if I eat healthy? ☘️ Kinda cool from Zomato 👏🏻